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COVID 19 and Reconstruction

Charles Karim Diggs

My name is Karim Charles Diggs. I’m calling from SCI Phoenix, Pennsylvania, and the title of my subject is “COVID-19 and Reconstruction.” A cure for all our diseases, including COVID-19, [inaudible] may very well be… Full Transcript

Jondhi Harrell Doesn’t Speak for PA Lifer Prisoners

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

“Johndi Harrell doesn’t speak for Pennsylvania lifer prisoners,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. Pennsylvania’s primary elections was bittersweet for Pennsylvania lifer prisoners and families in regards to the reelection of State Representative Jason Dawkins of the… Full Transcript

Support House Bill 135

Omar Askia Ali

In most states in America, there’s parole eligibility for people with a life sentence, but not in Pennsylvania. However, the remedy for Pennsylvania is a legislative bill in order to be in lockstep with the… Full Transcript

Is There a Fear To Love?

Charles Karim Diggs

Charles Karim Diggs, and I’m calling from Pennsylvania, Graterford. And, uh, my, uh, title for the subject tonight is, “Is There a Fear to Love?” You may ask yourself, what does love have to do… Full Transcript

Batts II: An Atrocity Towards Children

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II Decision is an Atrocity Towards Child Offenders,” by Shakaboona. There was no victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II case decision. In fact, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision was… Full Transcript

On Politics

Maroon Prevails

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black Liberation fighter since his youth, after many years of struggle, has prevailed in his action to bar the Pa. Dept. of Corrections (DOC) from ever holding him in isolation again.… Full Transcript

House Bill 2135 and Parole Eligibility for Life Sentence Prisoners

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

In a House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda posted May 25,2016 to all House members, Representative Jason Dawkins announced he will be introducing a bill in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that will abolish Life-Without-Parole (LWOP) imprisonment in… Full Transcript

Philly District Attorney Trades One Illegal Sentence For Another

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Philadelphia District Attorney (D.A.) Seth Williams finally released his Juvenile Resentencing Protocol in compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Miller vs. Alabama and Montgomery vs. Louisiana. D.A. Seth Williams has stated “we are… Full Transcript

PA Parole Board Lags Behind In Reform for Child Lifers

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) is in the pits when it comes to reforming the way it handles parole review of child offenders and child lifer prisoners. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court… Full Transcript

Mondo Mourned

Mumia Abu-Jamal

He was born David Rice, and in his youth, he joined an offshoot of the Black Panther Party, a decision that would change his life’s trajectory. For, when he and another young man, Edward Poindexter,… Full Transcript

Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences

Judicial Fury

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript